I woke up from this dream quite upset, but upon reflection and after explaining it to my husband, I realized the meaning wasn’t nearly as bad as it seemed.

In the dream,  I bought a lotto ticket and went home.  It was time to find out if I had won.  I asked my husband to look up the numbers on his IPad.  He read the first to me and I saw I had it.  He then read the second and I saw I had that as well.  I was becoming excited now, hoping I had won something.  He then read the third number and I had that one!  I exclaimed happily, “I won!  I have three numbers!”  I knew that meant I had won at least $3.00, which is better than not winning anything at all.  I looked at the rest of the numbers, and I knew before he even said anything, that I had all of them.  Somehow, I had all 6 numbers and had won the $1,000,000.00 lottery prize.  I told him to tell me the last three numbers, but before he could, I said them instead.  He looked at me in astonishment because he knew it meant we had won one million dollars.  I yelled out, “I won! I won! I won the million dollars!”  The numbers had actually been a little hard to read, and I looked more closely at what I was holding.  Instead of a lotto ticket, it was a piece of cardboard with all of the lotto numbers from all of the lotto tickets I had ever bought written on it.  The clerk had given it to me instead of the actual lotto ticket.  I knew that meant I couldn’t claim the prize and wondered if I went to the store and explained what had happened, if they would give me my ticket then.  I really doubted it.  I stared hard at the card and knew that this was probably the only time I would ever win the big prize and couldn’t even claim it.  I woke up very upset.

This dream seems to be in response to a thought I have been having lately.  It indicates that I have tried many times to accomplish something that I would consider to be a big prize.  I finally do-as indicated by my having all 6 numbers of the lottery.   I know I have accomplished something amazing and so does my husband, but I have no way to prove it.  There seems to be no external evidence of the amazing thing I have achieved.  I hope that at some point this accomplishment will become evident in some way by changes in my life, but at this point see little hope of that happening.

Sometimes a dream will give you verification of what you already know is occurring around you.

A friend mentioned she had an interesting dream while on vacation.  She stated that in the dream, her office went to New York City to attend a celebration party.  Two former students of her school who are currently in college and about to be engaged were also at this party.  These two students will also be moving soon to another state on the East Coast to pursue their degrees.  In the dream, she said it felt perfectly natural for them to be there celebrating with her office.  She smiled as she spoke about the dream, as it had been very pleasant.

Interpretation:  From my friend’s perspective, she sees her office as being uplifted into a more cohesive, sophisticated and contemporary unit, as represented by the celebration in New York City, and the young couple working on their degrees and moving to the East Coast.   The young couple becoming engaged also indicates a more intimate relationship among the office staff.  The celebration itself indicates that all are happy about this change and enjoying it.  This change is already in progress, and will soon be recognized as having occurred by each of them.

This seemed like a good dream to start this blog with.  Let me know if you have any comments.